The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-07-28

good memory OF names and things
generally. but if you want to get me
mixed up and have fun with me, you
can do 1t that way.
But fellow-citizcns, how can we
best preserve the blessing of freedom
and fork it over unimpaired to our
childrenp How can we enhance the
blood-bought right which is inherent in
every human being. of the people, for
the people and by the people, where
tyrant foot hath never trod nor bigot
forged chain, for to look back from
our country's glorious natal day or
forward to glorious. a happy and II
prosperous future with regard to purity
of the ballot and free speech. say
for one we cannot do otherwise. pro
longed ,applause.)
Il would rather have my right hand
cleavc to the roof of my mouth than TO
utter sentiment that l would regret,
but say that as people, as a nation
or us an inalienable right which no
man can gainsay or successfully con-
trovert, not for political purposes, and
yet am often led to inquire whittier
are we drifting, not only as people
and as nation, but as Il country and
as joint School District No. 6, where
we now stand and when we are paying
school teacher this summer $22 a
month to teach the children, little
prattling children, during the hot sum-
NOR weather, how many feet of intes-
| tines there are in the human body and
what is best to do for it? Last winter
we paid 1874 per month to man who
opened the school with prayer and then
made picture of the digestive organs
on the black board. And still we
wonder that politics is corrupt!
Il tell you that the seeds of vice and
wickedness is often sowed at school in
the minds of the young by teachers
who are paid large salary to do far
different. What do you think of man
who would open school house with
prayer and then converse freely about
the alimentary canal? Such mau
would lead life OF the deepest infamy
if he had the least encouragement
so 1 say, fellow-citizens, that we
must guard against the influences of
the public schools as nation, for the
people, of the people and by the peo-
pie. Education is often blessing in
disguise, but we should not pry into
things that the finite mind has no busi-
ness with. How much was Calico
ahead in the long run for going out of
his sphere? He was boycotted from
morning till night and died poor. Look
at Demosthenes. Look at Diogenes.
They pried into science, and both Of
them was poor providers and have
since died. Of course their names are
frequently used in debating schools,
and some claim that this is big pay
for what they went through, but l say
give me a highstepping horse, the
| bright smile of dear ones who are not
related to me in any way. the approval
of the admiring throng, a large woolly
dog that will do as tell him, mod
est little home and unlimited credit at
| the store, and l do not care how much
| B. will have to use off from the dia-
meter of given grindstone for which
he paid an undivided one fifteenth.
II know that this is regarded as a
queer doctrine by what is called our
more Advanced Thinkers, but say let
every man who pants for fame select
his own style of pant and go ahead. l
bid him most hearty godspeed and
hope he will do we'll.
"But what makes me mad is for a
man to come to me and dictate what l
| shall pant for. This is called intoler-
ance by people who can afford to use
words of that size. Intolerance is n
thing that makes me tired. Whether
it's religious, political or social intoler-
ance, 1 dislike it very much. People
that think l will enjoy voting for a
yaller dog that had been picked out
for me, or that l will be tickled to
death to indorse the religious dogmas
of an effete monicky with my eyes shet,
don't know me. 1 say, let every man
rely solely on his own thinker, and
damned be he who first cries hold,
enough! am not a profane man, but |
quote from a poem in using the above
| quotation.
.But again. In closing, let me say
| that we owe it to our common country
to be peaceable citizens and pay our
taxes without murmuring. The time
| to get in our fine work is on the valua-
tion, and it is too late to kick after
that. Let us cultivate a spirit of lofty
patriotism, but believe nothing just to
oblige others. l used to be great
believer in anything that was submitted
for my approval. That was what
keptme back. Now, if man like Jay
Gould says he is not feeling so well as
lie did, l make him show me his tongue.
'We are here to-day to celebrate the
birthday of American freedom, as I
understand it, and / am here to say
that whatever may be said against our
refinement and our pork. our style of
freedom is sought for everywhere. 1t
is freedom that will stand any climate
and | hear it very highly spoken of
wherever 60.
II am here to state that, as boy and
man, have been constant user of
American freedom for over fifty years,
and can truly say that feel no desire
to turn back; also that there will be a
grand, free-for-all scufflc for creased
pig on the vacant lot south of the
church at o'clock, after which fire.
works will be served to those who de-
sire to remain.
And thus did the Fourth of July pass
with all its glories in Whalen's Grove
in the year of our Independence the